Electronic apparatus and electronic apparatus controlling method
AssigneeSony Semiconductor Solutions Corporation
InventorsKumiko Mahara, Yusuke Moriyama
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Abstract
Noise is suppressed in an electronic apparatus including a light emission section and a solid state imaging element. The electronic apparatus includes an imaging section, a prohibition period setting section, and a light emission section. In the electronic apparatus, the imaging section captures image data. The light emission section emits irradiation light. The prohibition period setting section sets, as a prohibition period, a period during which noise is generated in the imaging section due to start or stoppage of light emission of the irradiation light. A light emission control section controls the light emission section so as to prohibit start and stoppage of the light emission during the prohibition period.
Claims10
An electronic apparatus, comprising:
- a solid state imaging element configured to capture image data;
- first circuitry configured to set a prohibition period, wherein the prohibition period is a period in which noise is generated in the solid state imaging element based on one of start or stoppage of light emission of irradiation light;
- and
- second circuitry configured to:
- control the light emission of the irradiation light;
- execute a clocking operation to clock a light emission time of the light emission;
- and
- halt each of the clocking operation and the light emission based on start of the prohibition period in the light emission time.
An electronic apparatus control method, comprising:
- capturing image data by a solid state imaging element;
- controlling light emission of irradiation light;
- setting a prohibition period, wherein the prohibition period is a period in which noise is generated in the solid state imaging element based on one of start or stoppage of the light emission of the irradiation light;
- executing a clocking operation to clock a light emission time of the light emission;
- and
- halting each of the clocking operation and the light emission based on start of the prohibition period in the light emission time.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.